Word: nonprofits
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...Simons said he remains committed to nonprofit work. Last summer, he helped manage a hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. But Simons said the LRAP cap would make it more difficult for him to pursue his chosen career...
LRAP beneficiaries include government employees as well as alumni who work for nonprofit organizations...
...council representatives will likely be hawking class rings on behalf of a large, for-profit company. Granted, Harvard Student Agencies (HSA)—the official ring vendor of the original bill, and now likely to be the one chosen by the council—is itself nonprofit. But it will almost certainly be contracting the ring-making out to a company that will reap large benefits from the deal...
...Trade in Endangered Species. But the stingray look has some experts concerned. "Because they aren't traditional, high-value fish food, sharks, skates and rays are some of the most underprotected fish species in the world," says Sonja Fordham, an international-fisheries specialist with the Ocean Conservancy, a private nonprofit that does science-based advocacy on ocean issues. "In most cases we don't know how their populations are doing. Stingrays are just not as easy to count as cows...
Minder, who described himself to the Arizona Republic as "the epitome of rehabilitated," in 1976 founded a nonprofit group to help delinquent youths, which now has a multimillion-dollar budget. Last week, amid a barrage of criticism, he resigned as chairman but will stay on Smith & Wesson's board. Anti-gun lobbyists hope this embarrassment will help them defeat a bill in Congress that would shield gunmakers from crime-victim lawsuits. Says Mike Barnes, head of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: "Only in the N.R.A.'s America can a company chaired by a onetime violent hoodlum...